Category: Valley News
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Column: D-H fails COVID-19 communication test
By Maggie CassidyValley News Editor Dartmouth-Hitchcock recently launched regular video briefings about the new coronavirus and its arrival in the Upper Valley, and when D-H President and CEO Joanne Conroy joined Chief Clinical Officer Ed Merrens for a Facebook Live event on March 5, Conroy, in response to a question from the public, said her…
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Upper Valley Contingent Travels to D.C. March to Make Their Voices Heard
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer Washington, D.C. — After Ruth Heindel and Carissa Aoki had listened to speakers at the Women’s March on Washington for four hours outside the Air and Space Museum on Saturday, the Dartmouth College graduate and post-doctoral ecology students became ecstatic when they learned that organizers were changing the…
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Grape Catch Is Feat for the Ages
Story by Maggie Cassidy. Video shot and edited by Maggie Cassidy. Post Mills — Setting the world record for using your mouth to catch a grape dropped from the greatest height: It was a dream years in the making, and all it took was a hot air balloon, walnut-sized fruits shipped specially from Georgia and…
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Farm Crews Take a Few Hours Off for ‘Olympics’
Story by Maggie Cassidy. Video shot and edited by Maggie Cassidy. Vershire — Spread out across a hayfield at Broad Acres Farm late Tuesday afternoon, dozens of farmers in teams of five, give or take, waited for the countdown over a megaphone — three, two, one, go! — before frantically installing sections of single-strand fence…
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Windsor Police Delete Report on Bar Fight Involving Officer
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer Windsor — It was a typical Friday evening in Windsor on Dec. 5, 2014, as snow blanketed downtown. Inside the Windsor Station Restaurant & Barroom, the scene was bustling. Among the patrons were William “Billy” Henne III, a longtime Windsor resident whose minor run-ins with the law had…
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Victim Speaks Out Against Attacker at Sentencing
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer White River Junction — In a powerful victim’s impact statement read while his family wept and consoled each other in the courtroom, a 27-year-old Vermont man told his abuser that the man had “murdered (his) soul,” but that he would persevere through the alleged yearslong sexual trauma that…
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Different Points of View on Thetford ‘Wall’
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer Thetford — Ruth Dwyer refers to it as a temporary “curtain.” Some townspeople have taken to calling it the Green Monster, or in Selectman Donn Downey’s words, “The Great Wall of Dwyer.” Thetford zoning officials, meanwhile, have determined the structure — forest-green shade cloth strung across five large…
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Contentious in Cornish: Outraged Residents Bombard School Board
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer Cornish — Pandemonium erupted when the School Board chairman announced that he would not allow public comment at the board’s meeting Tuesday night, even as the audience of nearly 100 demanded the chance to speak on the controversy surrounding a board member’s social media post.
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Vermont Amber Alert Ends With Mother’s Arrest in Lyme
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer Lyme — A 49-year-old mother is awaiting extradition to face felony charges in Vermont, where authorities allege she abducted her biological son from his foster family near Bennington before transporting him to the Upper Valley, where she was apprehended Monday night. An Amber Alert was issued around 8:30…
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Perriello Gets 35 Years to Life; Sentence Is Harshest Possible For Man Who Killed Wife
By Maggie Cassidy Valley News Staff Writer Newport — James W. Perriello received the maximum sentence for the shooting death of his wife, teacher Natalie Perriello, following a heart-wrenching hearing on Wednesday where the oldest of the couple’s four children confronted her father for the first time since the murder, and Perriello apologized for what…
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